Communities on Holochain

What is Communities on Holochain and what is it for?

Communities on Holochain is the Holochain app layer behind Communities — a set of DNAs holding the rules for the shared data a community's members read and write. It was built as the back end for a community platform, with the visible interface living in a separate repository, and it was exercised through testing releases rather than shipped as a finished product.

Communities on Holochain holds the Holochain components — DNAs — behind Communities, a community platform Holo-Host worked on around 2019. The README describes the repository as holding "DNAs required for running Communities on Holochain" and carries the maintainers' own warning that it was a work in progress with only limited functionality at that stage. A companion repository carried the user interface.

In human terms these DNAs are the shared rules of a group space: the parts that set what a community's members can publish and how that data is held, so a front end can work with it without a central service owning the record. Because the interface lived in a separate repository, this one is not an app a person opens on its own — it is the back end those interfaces were built on.

The project was exercised through Holoscape, the desktop app that installed and ran Holochain apps on a person's own machine: the repository's release listing shows a build published "for testing in Holoscape". That same listing labels it "DON'T USE", and the README frames the work as a limited work in progress, so this is a record of a historical project rather than maintained software. Further detail is in the repository README and its release listing.

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